Word: greates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...great problem of modern society is to find the individual place and ideal for the menial laborer whose life has become simply a cog in some great industrial machine. Machinery should not subordinate humanity. This is the great evil of modern democracy, caused by the tendency to regard labor, not as a pleasure which fortunately affords a livelihood, but as a means of obtaining money alone...
Professor Abel Lefranc in the last of the series of Hyde lectures on "Moliere" given in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, treated at length the relation of the works of the great dramatist to the social conditions of the seventeenth century and to the movement for the education of women...
...handling have astonished his audiences, accustomed as they are to hearing men with only one subject, and hardly able to conceive of one individual who apparently knows a good deal about everything in this world. On municipal government he is recognized everywhere as an authority, and on the other great questions of the world his ideas always carry great weight. The mind which can grasp these matters has been used with equal force on questions of University life. We have often heard his views on athletics, the dormitory problem, three-year graduation and other subjects of interest of Harvard...
Tonight he is to speak on "Education as a Career," a subject which no one is better fitted to discuss than he. From a small New England university, Harvard has been made a great national institution through his untiring efforts, and the whole spirit of education throughout the country has been improved by his ideas. President Eliot has won eminence in many fields; in education he is pre-eminent. This chance to hear him is a rare privilege...
...shipment of about 250 gowns has arrived at the Co-operative Society. All men who were measured on or before March 11 may obtain their gowns now upon payment of $4.65. It is singly urged that these men buy their gowns immediately in order not to cause to great a rush on May 1. CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...